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Special Report - Lost hooves, dead cattle before Merck halted Zilmax sales
2013-12-30 22:46:23| Food - Topix.net
The U.S. beef industry's dependence on the muscle-building drug Zilmax began unravelling here, on a sweltering summer day, in the dusty cattle pens outside a Tyson Foods Inc slaughterhouse in southeastern Washington state.
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Managing Cattle, Equipment In The Cold
2013-12-23 20:32:43| Beef
This month has been one of the coldest Decembers I can remember. Weve been in a cold snap for a few weeks now, with temperatures ranging from sub-zero to single digits. The frigid cold makes ranching a little more challenging, but being prepared can help get through freezing weather conditions. BEEF Daily read more
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Brazilian cattle producers standardize audits to exclude deforestation from supply chain
2013-12-19 00:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Brazil's largest cattle producers have agreed to standardize and make public their audits as part of an effort to exclude from their supply chains livestock produced via deforestation, reports Greenpeace, which has led a campaign to improve the environmental performance of the sector. The agreement on a standard auditing protocol means that the companies' progress toward eliminating deforestation will now be directly comparable. The companies - JBS, Marfrig and Minerva, which represent 60 percent...
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Cattle top global livestock emitters
2013-12-17 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Cattle are the biggest source of greenhouse gases, accounting for more than three-quarters of all emissions from global livestock, a survey shows. The assessment, described as the most detailed of its kind, identified Europe and the Americas as the world's epicentres of beef production. Annually, the world produces 586m tonnes of milk, 124m tonnes of poultry and 59m tonnes of beef. The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The assessment, funded by the...
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Cattle Market Outlook: EPAs Proposed Ethanol Rollback Complicates Planning
2013-12-04 23:03:00| Beef
EPA wont make a final ruling on rolling back the renewable fuel standard until spring 2014, which complicates agricultural planning read more
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